Why do people use Instagram?

It's a complete load of shite.

I find Instagram the best social media app. Facebook and Twitter show you stuff you don't want to see because of sharing/retweeting, and people's likes showing on Twitter/their comments showing on Facebook.

Instagram does none of that.

Larbre34

Its a clean UX.

Works well for business and semi-pros, not so much for private individuals.

sasco

The reels and advertising have turned it totally crap, but it was getting fairly poor even before.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119574945#Comment_119574945

Really has, it was perfect before they started messing with it.

For Forks Sake

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567824#Comment_119567824

Instagram's owned by Meta/Facebook

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119576007#Comment_119576007

Ahh my bad, they be worth a paltry 430 billion in comparison 😜

iamstop

I have 3 insta accounts.

• 1 for records and beer with some day to day shots of scenes and interesting art I come across. I also use this one to post about up coming or gigs I'm currently doing. This is the account I use most to message people with too.
• 1 for selling records. During the pandemic I was delivering records to people's doors because record stores were closed. This account is almost not used now.
• 1 account for my more professional amateur photography. I only post thinks shot with my DSLR on this account.

Count Dracula

I quite enjoy leering at the pictures of all the twentysomething women who make a living participating in Scat games with filthy rich Arabs in Dubai, whilst pretending to the world (and their mothers) that they got the money for all their expensive jewellery, dresses and bikinis from acting or modelling with a local previously unheard of PR agency.

I particularly enjoy their group photos, which they take with all their "friends", whilst standing in some overpriced restaurant which actually acts as a front for Russian mafia money laundering projects. They all look so viable sitting in front of a €300 lobster that they will have no idea how to eat properly when they eventually sit their overused arses down and pretend to know how to.

A picture tells many stories.

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119576007#Comment_119576007

Is Instagram down?

I love the food pics

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119564225#Comment_119564225

Businesses want and demand an IN into every facet of our lives. There is zero refuge.

Instagram was one of the last refuges where you could enjoy something on its merits… but sadly now it’s as corrupted.

Everything I’ve bought online and every retailer who I’ve purchased from now almost weekly hits me with advertising into my email….thankfully I’ve redirected everything into spam / junk….

looking now at my email…various clothing labels x6, supermarket x2 , a sports retailer, Amazon, a pharmacy, cinema, music store, electronics retailer x2,

so about 15-20 emails per week… 80+ per month…over 1000 emails a year that are unsolicited, inconsequential, of no use, interest or anything close…

every magazine you buy is packed with pages of advertising, add inserts etc, newspapers the same…

I never used instagram,facebook,or twitter.Its all I can do to keep up with boards.

AMKC

I just use it to search for interesting people and dome famous people. It's gotten worse lately do and I have thought about dropping it but decided not yet.

They announced recently that they plan on adding even more unwanted nonsense to timelines.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119566534#Comment_119566534

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGnPAbrXmw

These Sissy's should be sent to Ukraine.

Dramatik

I mean it is what you make of it, don't follow bellends and you won't get a bunch of crap on your timeline. I will say though I've had a few people catch me out, when they realised that I didn't follow them back and confronted me about it. Amazing how butt hurt some people get over a follow on an app but it's the reason why I've never seen:

Baby pics

Food pics

Drunk with friends pics

in my feed.

rob316

Full of pretentious ****. Influencers are the scourge of the internet preying on people insecurities for financial gain.

I remember when you could build a brand or business on facebook but then it just turned into an advertising platform.